Day 6 Fic for sexualoddity

[tarotgal]

Title: Day 6
Author: tarotgal
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: R
Pairing: Sam/Castiel
Disclaimer: Not my characters. I wish they were mine. I definitely don’t get paid for this.
Summary: Sam has allergies and Cas has a mission.
Notes: Written during my 12 Ficlets in 12 Days in 2015 project for sexualoddity

Link: http://tgsrealm.tarotgal.net/stories/12Ficlets12Days-2015/12in12Day6.html

Whole series: http://tgsrealm.tarotgal.net/stories/12Ficlets12Days-2015/index.html

It was fun to write sort of from Cas's perspective. This fic really came together for me when I watched the beginning of season 10, though this is set before that. I hope you like it! And I hope you have a wonderful year :-) *hugs*

Comments

[sexualoddity.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness tarotgal, words cannot express how much I love this.

Your Cas-narrative is perfect. He’s just so reflective and considerate and everything is so patiently explained. It’s all at once hilarious and heart-warming. In fact, there are so many examples of amazing Cas-voice that it makes it really hard to pick a favourite. In fact reading this for the first time, I was thinking, ‘I will quote that bit back to her… no that bit… no that bit.’ TOO MUCH AWESOME.

Because quoting most of your narrative would probably be overkill, in the end I settled on ‘He who had allowed blind men to see and lame men to walk would surely allow Samuel Winchester to stop sneezing.’ because it made me laugh out loud. But I also want to give special mention to, ‘…he would probably kiss him again. Or more’, because I love this Horny and yet circumspect Angel. And also, ‘Sam with a stuffy nose was admittedly kind of adorable’, because oh God, Cas I’m right there with you!

Which brings me nicely on to my OTHER favourite thing… Allergic Sam. As you can probably imagine, I read every scrap of allergic-Sam that I can get my hands on, but I particularly enjoyed this depiction because of the way that you established this really amazing routine around Sam’s allergies (worse in the mornings, lasted for thirty years, when he wakes up sneezing he sneezes all day, Dean recognises them instantly and is frustrated by them, all of the various times Cas and Sam and Dean have tried to improve the symptoms). And I LOVE that, because now ON TOP of all the awesomeness of this story, I can also imagine so many other times that Sam has woken up with allergies and that’s so many bonus imaginings!

And ALSO, Cas is such a fantastic narrator for allergic Sam because there he is so observant, so there can be all this description (which you do masterfully) without it feeling like ‘This description is only here to get you off’, which is never as enjoyable. And he expresses things in such simple language, which for reasons that I can’t explain is really hot – maybe it’s just more raw? Physical? I don’t know. Also, use of the word 'tickling'… *fans self*

I absolutely love the end as well. I’m so happy that Cas got to help in some way. (I think that’s the only way he would ever have been satisfied!) Plus, replenishing tissues on demand seems a pretty good outcome for Sam as well.

This fic is just wonderful. I can’t thank you enough for writing it for me, but I will try:

Thank you, thank you, thank yooooooooouuu…

You are so kind and generous and talented and I hope you have an amazing New Year :)

Can I write you anything in return?

[tarotgal]

WHOOPS! My copy&paste methods got me in trouble! Sorry about the subject line. *fixes immediately*

I'm so happy you like the story and all of the many imaginings that go along with the setup/situation. I feel bad taking credit for what was totally your idea, but I'm happy you enjoyed this execution of it. I was a little nervous about writing Cas--especially as I didn't exactly decide which season I was writing and Cas has been changing pretty drastically from season to season lately. But I'm so relieved you thought his observations/analysis and drive to do SOMETHING to help all made sense. Dean's frustration was fun to write as well (though I love that it's something of a routine as well and after all these years he knows what to do to minimize Sam's sneezes, even if he can't get them to go away either).

I'm also glad you liked the "kind of adorable" line; I was really nervous about it it. But I feel like angels (non-dick ones, at least) would have an appreciation for humanity and Cas in a loving, caring relationship would put his own spin on it, of course, and find everything Sam did fair game for analysis and adoration. I guess it's that age-old question of if you can find it attractive and still feel bad for the person sneezing. Which, in my book/mind/story, you can.

Squee! I'm so happy you enjoyed this fic!


And to answer your question, I'd love for you to write me something in return. I don't mind allergies, if that's where your heart lies, though I prefer colds. What if... what if every August Sam and Dean just take two weeks off--every year--during the heart of hayfever season. Dean's got hayfever and it makes him too miserable to drive or hunt. But Sam's got it ten times worse. So they just plan every year to stock up on supplies and find a place to wait it out. So one year they get all prepared and tell Bobby not to contact them about hunts and everything. And then it doesn't come. WTF? So they're just sitting around in a motel room, waiting to sneeze and getting increasingly worried when it doesn't happen. Or maybe Dean's feeling it and sneezing like normal but nothing from Sam. And that's got them both anxious (and trapped inside a motel room). Is it a side effect of a recent demon blood binge? Or some sort of curse? Or did Sam just outgrow it? There's really no way of knowing without exposing Sam to the worst allergens to see if they cause sneezing *GRIN*

[sexualoddity.livejournal.com]

I'm more than happy to write that if that's what you want, but wouldn't you prefer something with colds, as you like them better?

Btw, I love the fact that you have an icon for every eventuality!